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Unit Testing is an important part of the application development life cycle for any platform. Visual Studio users no longer need to depend on 3 rd party frameworks for unit tests on Windows Phone. The Windows Phone Unit Test framework delivered in CTP2...

In the last few months since Windows 8 RTM’ed, we have seen the number of apps on the Windows Store grow significantly. There are several different aspects to shipping a great app to the Store. One of these is testing your app to ensure that the...

Introduction CodeLens has been a blockbuster feature in Visual Studio 2013. Consistently it is listed among the best loved features for the release. We continue to work on it and in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2 , we are releasing a new indicator called...

Kanban customizable columns was made publicly available on the March 4 service update, and will be available in the RC version of VS Update 2. You can read the release notes for an overview of the feature itself. The purpose of this blog post is to talk...

Some teams like to track bugs as tasks and other teams track them as backlog items, such as user stories or requirements. If you’re using a Scrum project, bugs are already in your backlog. However, if your team project was created using the Agile...

If you have not already seen the brief video on the Smart Unit Tests feature , I urge you to do so; this feature can help you overcome any inertia in getting started writing unit tests. But there is much more to it than what is shown in the video and...

By now you will have heard the exciting news that Visual Studio 2015 supports C++ development on Android (and that includes an Emulator for Android ).
Obviously no development experience is complete without debugging support, so this means that Visual...

Update: Visual Studio 2013 will generate PDBs automatically when using the CPU Sampling or the CPU Usage tool in the Performance and Diagnostics hub . See this post for more details! When profiling managed applications on Windows 8 any samples in an NGEN...

As a result of writing the post: Edit Test Case properties directly from the test runner of Microsoft Test Manager I asked one the ALM MVPs, Terje Sandstrom , to also look at one of the most requested Visual Studio Update 1 features – but an area I didn...

For those of you who haven’t been following the changes to unit testing that we first previewed back at the //BUILD/ conference, and for those you who did but want to know what has changed, this post is going to take you through the whole thing...

UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here .
This blog post series includes step-by-step instructions to get you productive as quickly as possible.
Click on any of the links below to get...

Hi all,
Today we have some draft documentation on how you can move your Team Foundation Server deployment. We have one conceptual and three procedural documents on this: Team Foundation Server Move Types , How to: Move from a Single-Server to a Dual...

Release Management provides the option to trigger a release from a build. But to use this feature, some additional logic has to be added to the default build process template. This article details how to make the necessary modifications.
If you are...

UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here .
This blog post is part of the Beginner’s Guide series with the goal to get you productive fast.
Visual Studio can work seamlessly with...

This post has been updated to reflect the latest changes as of Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 – enjoy! You are probably all familiar with the debugger DataTips that let you see the value of a variable when you hover over it in the editor. This post introduces...

We recently deployed a new feature to Visual Studio Online to help people get new team members started with a project and for people browsing the server to understand what a project is for and how to use it. We call the feature “Project Welcome...

Application Insights now supports collecting telemetry from Windows Phone and Windows Store applications and lets you visualize it in the Azure Preview portal. You can get insights about your users and what they are doing with your application, as well...

One of the things I’m really proud of in the new Visual Studio 11 developer experience is the investment we made in developer and unit testing. We first started talking about this back at the //BUILD/ conference, and since then have spent a lot...

As part of our continued effort to provide great diagnostic tools for developers, Visual Studio 2013 introduces a new Memory Usage tool as a part of the Performance and Diagnostics hub . The Memory Usage tool supports Windows Store and Windows Phone Store...

Many folks have noticed I had practically stopped blogging. I have been working on one of the products Brian announced at the launch : Application Insights and as this service wasn’t in preview until today have not been able to blog about it.
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Update: As announced with Visual Studio 2013 launch, cloud based load testing with Visual studio Online is in Commercial Preview. This is open to all Visual Studio Online users. You can read more about it here
Performance and load testing is a very...

This blog assumes that you have a prior understanding of Coded UI Test and some experience with Recording and Playback on either Internet Explorer or Cross Browser. A good starting point for Cross Browser testing would be here . This blog explains the...

UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here .
This blog post is part of the Beginner’s Guide series with the goal to get you productive fast.
Here we walk quickly through the entire...

Unit Testing feature in Visual Studio 2012 has been very enthusiastically received by the developer community. Our focus during RC milestone was to respond to feedback we received from Visual Studio 11 Beta. This article talks about some of the new features...

Upgrading is hard. We have heard a lot of comments about the pain that people had to deal with during the upgrade of the team projects from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. For TFS 2012 we make this upgrade much easier for customers with none to limited customizations...